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Would it be professional of me to request their billing info and use that to sign up for an account or is this illegal/frowned on? Alternatively, i might sign up with my own money and then change the billing info afterwards. Do you think this would be okay?

I'm designing a site for a client and would like to host them with TCH if they have no other idea of what they want. I'm not sure how to go about this though. Should i ask for their billing info and give that to TCH when i open a new account? Or should i open the account in my name and then transfer it? What if they don't want to give me their billing info directly? I don't want to put the site in my name (financially), but i do want to manage it, obviously. How is this sort of thing normally handled? Thanks for you help.

Thanks. That answered everything.

Not quite the usual question, but perhaps best for the "backend services" catagory, so here goes: I am designing and programming a nice little turn based strategy game: http://www.project-axis.net/ (website hosted with TCH, woohoo!) Okay, so we were talking our forum about how to go about setting up multiplayer games and such. The simple way would be to have a small program on a computer somewhere act as the "master server" that lists games on the internet that are currently in play. When you start a server on your own, your game logs into the master server's list of current games. That's all the master server does. It's not like a "Quake III server". It doesn't play the game, it justs logs current games like any other database app. Then if you want to play the game as a regular client, your game checks for and returns a list of active servers to play on from off the master server My question is, if i program this small and simple application for logging currently active servers (probably in C++ or just PHP/MySQL), can i host it on my regular account that i also host my webpage on? It needs to be on a computer that the whole world can access and is always on. In other words, my desktop is out :-) "but hey, i already pay for a hosted machine!" The program would not consume very much resources. Especially if no one likes the game :-)

In a nutshell: - i have one hosted account with TCH - i own two domain names - one of those domain names is tied to the account ("domainA"). the other is not tied to anything yet ("domainB"), i just bought it before someone else would have and it's just sitting there. i currently get email from "me@domainA.com". I would also like to get email as a seperate inbox (not a redirect or alias) to "me@domainB.com". Can i do that with my current setup or would that require purchasing a second hosting account?

Hi, i'm in the same boat. I've been hosted with TCH for about a year now but i have many other projects i'd like to start websites for with low bandwidth and low space requirements. I really don't want seperate accounts for half a dozen sites. I'd like to host them all on the plan i have right now with their own regular domain names. Instead of pointing people to someplace.somedomain.com i'd prefer it if they just went to www.someplace.com and forward me to the subdomain where i can then pull some .htaccess extratrickery to *fake* having a real domain name. Can someone on the staff please inform my why this isn't allowed or offered? I'd be very very interested to know why. I hope it's technical reason and not a cheap way to squeeze money out of me! Again, i'd be very interested in having this service available, or at least a good explaination for why it is not. thanks

Quick rundown: the website i originally hosted with TCH (or ***** as it was then) has grown extraordinarily and now consumes 40+ GB traffic monthly, so i moved it to a more or less dedicated server elswhere. It has been there for a few months already and my space here has been dormant (i paid for a whole year). However, i still have my webspace here that i would now like to use for a different site. I just perchased a new domain name through TCH this morning and selected "hosted with TCH" when i bought it. The question is: will the domain name point to my current webspace automatically or do i have to do something extra to wire them together?

Thanks. I've got some nifty perl pw-generators that work good for that. mostly i just wanted to know is if user could set up their own without "being watched" and having me set it up for them. What you are saying is "You're the admin, that's your job". I can live with that! thanks

I have some folks using my domain email which they need, however i don't want to have to have to set up their passwords. I want to give them a default pw then have them change it according to their wishes without my further involvment. I looked in the two webmail systems and i don't see any options for it there. Is there any way for the people using my domain email to set their own passwords instead of me doing it manually? did i miss something obvious? thanks for the help. i really appreciate this board :-)

yup, i understand how they work. i guess i'll sit and wait for the domain name to transfer and hope for the best. thanks

Is there a tricky way to configure an ordinary email address in CPanel to reroute to /dev/null or trashcan (not the catch-all accout, but a normal user) ? I would like to set up a "dedicated spam account" if possible. thanks

Many sites use Server SIde Includes to put headers and footers on their pages, and mine as well. However, it would appear that the include virtual command does not work here: ><!--#include virtual="/somefile.txt." --> i am wondering if this is disabled in Apache for some reason or if i'm just a moron. It was working previously on the server i am coming from but stubbornly refuses to work now. as a side note: the include file command works fine, but the catch is, it only grabs files that are in the same directory. if files in subdirs need to use the header and footer pages located at the root of the tree, you must use the include virtual command. ('cept it doesn't appear to work) sample url: http://server5.*****/~leiav...datadumps.shtml any thought?

Here's another i found helpfull http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/progra.../tutorial4.html and if you really want to get serious, get a book. i won't recommend one since i don't know your programming experience

So if i want to have SNH as my registrar for $11 as well, i get: 1) my domain name working with my new site here 2) registered with the same company 3) an additional year's hold on the domain name on top of what i already have? if so, sign me up. sounds good. also, if i was registered with SNH, what would normal 1-year domain name renewels normally cost?

I searched but could not find an answer to a rather simple question: I purchased an account about a month ago but i have not transferred the domain yet due to some delays. I would like to transfer it now. Is this a service SNH provides? If so how much $$$ ? The last time i moved hosts, they did it for me for free, so although i'm pretty experienced in web design, i don't know much about manually changing domain registration stuff. thanks for the help

OK - found what's going on. i need to run a script that needs a perl module not installed on the system: "DB_File" (Berkeley Database) how can i get this installed?

No, but i just did per your suggestion. no go. It's not a 404 File Not Found, it a 500 Internal Server Error. The script is there but not functional for some odd reason. I'm not new at this scripting biz, so everything i know says it should work.

I'm setting up my site before i transfer the domain name over from my current host and i want to make sure everything works the way it is supposed to . I cannot however, get any CGI scripts working. Permission are set to 755 on all scripts and the path to perl is correct. Does CGI and perl not work on sites that do not have the domain name transferred yet? test script: (should print "It Works!") http://66.246.35.30/~leiavoia/cgi-bin/test.cgi script ------------------- #!/usr/bin/perl print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n"; print "It Works!"; exit; -------------------------- Any thoughts?